Be Worthy of Imitation: Why Modeling Matters at Home and in Class
We have dreams and hopes for our children that often extend beyond mimicry of our own lives. We hope they ...
Read More Happiness in the Classroom
We all want our children to be happy, and while this is traditionally thought of as an at-home concern, we ...
Read More A Case for Deferring Electronic Media in the Classroom
A three-year-old talks to grandma on Skype. A seven-year-old reads a fairy-tale with Dad on a Kindle. A child with spatial-awareness issues plays ...
Read More Teach Children to Seek Significance over Success
Abraham Maslow believed that one of our most essential needs is to feel loved and needed by those around us. ...
Read More Reframing Failure in The Classroom
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” - Ken Robinson We want our ...
Read More Responsible Innovation in Education
“Innovation in Education,” is an umbrella term that means different things to different researchers and educators. While there is no ...
Read More Crucial Creativity: The Case for Cultivating Divergent Thinking in Classrooms
“Divergent thinking” was a term coined by psychologist J.P. Guilford in 1967. Guilford was an early proponent of the idea ...
Read More The Educator as Artist
Art teachers get to have fun. They teach through play, spread joy, and get their students’ creative juices flowing. While ...
Read More Healing through Inner Work
We are emerging from a time in history when many of our daily life activities have been dictated by urgency ...
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